Cuir d'Oranger
Neroli and orange blossom open together — closely related white florals sharing a creamy, honeyed sweetness with a citrusy edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Mossy60
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Orris
- Oakmoss
- Birch
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and orange blossom open together — closely related white florals sharing a creamy, honeyed sweetness with a citrusy edge. Neroli reads as slightly more citrus-bright; orange blossom is warmer and more indolic. Together they form an unmistakably white-floral opening.
Oakmoss, birch, and patchouli in the base signal a chypre structure. Oakmoss provides the mossy-green foundation; birch adds a smoky, slightly medicinal wood note; patchouli deepens with earthiness. The name Cuir d'Oranger hints at a leather character the birch may provide.
The composition moves from luminous white florals to an earthy, austere base. The birch smoke and patchouli give the drydown character and distinction from generic white-floral fragrances.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
